Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real dispute may arise over the recommendation for abolishing grades. Most departments appear willing to change courses in a token gesture toward relaxing student-faculty relations, yet there is widespread support for the "C+ is still a plus better than C" theory. An English department study committee will probably recommend one new non-graded course for next year, but chairman Warren G. Bloomfield is typical in insisting that "customers who but our graduate students need a grade criterion to judge students that general criticisms don't provide...
...some reason impossible to create such a Center in the near future, the University might as a temporary alternative establish several scattered smaller gathering-places. How many, would depend on space, resources, and other considerations. But they ought to be substantial enterprises, not token arrangements for coffee or coke machines. Nor should they be strictly departmental or even restricted to graduate students in particular academic areas. The aim should be for a mixture of students from various disciplines, drawn to the gathering-place partly because it is geographically near their usual stamping grounds but chiefly because of its congeniality...
...fence opposite Lehman Hall the day before and had had their bursar's cards taken. X went into the teeth of the precedent with indifference. They put the first marks on the Harvard Hall fence before the few members were driven off by a couple of Harvard cops. The token triumph is announced to the people lunching at Lehman Hall, where what is later called a revolution ensues. Someone brings out a record player and starts the then new Beatles album; a girl starts giving a finger painting class; and another person sells yogurt for prices cheaper than Lehman Hall...
Williams hopes the enterprise eventually can be "color blind, with real integration rather than token." Currently, the employees of Freedom Industries are preponderantly black. Williams gave no statistics; "We never count," he said...
...point, to prod some life into a love scene, he grabbed Actress Katharine Ross's buttocks and yanked her toward him. "When it was finally over I apologized to Nichols and to Katharine," Hoffman lugubriously remembers. "As I was putting on my coat to leave, a New York subway token fell out of my pocket. One of the crew picked it up and said, 'Here, kid, you're gonna need this...